Tag: General Tire
Garrick Freitas Takes Impressive Overall Win At Grueling Vegas To Reno
(Reno, NV – Aug 20 2012) Garrick Freitas and the Freitas Motorsports team had a flawless race at the Best in the Desert, Vegas to Reno (V2R) off-road race. V2R is the longest off-road race in America starting outside Las Vegas in Beatty, Nevada and finishing 534 miles north in Dayton. The race is known for […]
Robby Gordon Holds Overall Points Lead Heading Into General Tire “Vegas To Reno”, “The Longest Off-Road Race In The United States”
(Las Vegas, Nevada – August 13, 2012) As the top off-road racers gather to take on the challenging second half of Best In The Desert’s 2012 6-race race season, racing icon Robby Gordon holds the overall, and Class 1500 points lead with 300 points in his bright orange RPM, Geiser Bros. truggy. Gordon leads the General […]
NORRA Supports AOK – Sets Sail For New Charity Horizons
(JULY 12, 2012) Philanthropist and off-road racer Nick Baldwin has spent the better part of the last decade finding unique ways to help the less fortunate via his AOK foundation – an acronym for “Acts of Kindness”. While AOK has done a great deal of charity work in the United States, much of his group’s efforts […]
A Rally Revisited: Looking Back At The 2012 Norra Mexican 1000
JULY 10, 2012: With the third annual running of the National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) General Tire Mexican 1000 now in the record books, there has been time to reflect on an event that cemented the rally’s heritage as the “Happiest Race on Earth”. The months leading up to this annual NORRA-promoted rally down the […]
THR Motorsports Ask – Are You Fast Enough To Win 10 Grand?
Corona, CA – THR Motorsports, Hoosier Precision Machining, GPR Stabilizer, Best in the Desert and Monster Energy say “Bring it!” They have all pitched in to put up $10,000 in cold, hard cash to the overall bike winner at the BITD, General Tire Vegas to Reno race (V2R). The prize is open to any team, any […]
JT Taylor Finishes NORRA Mexican 1000 In Ultra4 Car Winning The Evolution 4×4 Class
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO MAY 29, 2012 – JT Taylor completed another first in off-road racing. He took the Torchmate / Tube Shark Ultra4 car south of the border and finished the four day 2012 General Tire NORRA Mexican 1000 Race. “This is the funest race on the planet, and I’ve been around the planet,” joked […]
General Tire, Azuñia Tequila “Snortin Nortin” Wins Back To Back At The NORRA 1000
Baja California, Mexico – The 2012 General Tire NORRA, Mexican 1000 has already transpired but it hasn’t really ended. Just like the tales told by the fire each night by the legends of our sport like Malcolm Smith, Walker Evans, Bruce Myers and the rest, the Mexican 1000 will live on in the memories of all […]
THR Motorsports – Best In The Desert Silver State 300 Race Report
Las Vegas, NV – The THR Motorsports team was out in full force at the Best in the Desert, Silver State 300 off-road race with three Monster Energy Kawasaki’s, the General Tire unlimited class 1500 car of Mikey Childress and Rick Johnson’s General Tire Trick Truck. Steve Hengeveld would solo the N1 Monster Energy Kawasaki as […]
Hard Work Pans Out For Freitas Motorsports At The BITD Silver State 300
Las Vegas, NV – You would not think that patience and racing go together well but sometimes that’s the case. Freitas Motorsports would have to overcome a huge deficit at the Best in the Desert, Silver State 300 off-road race when they failed to start their qualifying lap due to a torque converter seal failure while […]
La Paz Racing Earns Win at Legendary Mint 400
Things are sure looking nice for a 3rd consecutive BITD Championship for Tim Casey and La Paz Racing Team, as they begin the 2012 Best in the Desert Race Series with back-to-back wins at the Parker 425 and the General Tire Mint 400. It’s been 28 years since Tim last raced the legendary Mint 400 […]